YouTube And The Value Of Video Content Hosting, Distribution, And Discovery
Google is learning that the value propositions of content hosting, content distribution, and content discovery are not created equal, and that YouTube’s monopoly on all three may be slipping away. A...
View ArticleIs Content Still A Business?
Is it possible that the future of the content business is worse than being less profitable and worse even than not scaling anymore — is it possible that content creation will cease to be a business? I...
View ArticleNBC Universal/News Corp Online Video Deal Demonstrates That The Content...
Did NBC Universal and News Corp cut a deal to create content for the web? New production capabilities? New armies of web-only content creators? No. This is about creating a platform for aggregating and...
View ArticleBringing Archive Content Online Adds To The User-Generated Content Avalanche
And you thought “user-generated content” was flooding the web with more “stuff” than human or algorithm could possibly process. Well, get ready for the next “wave,” drawn from the endless ocean of...
View ArticleDoes Kevin Rose have the Next Big Thing in Social Networking?
I think Kevin Rose might be on the verge of something big, again. For those not familiar, Kevin is the founder of Digg, the social news aggregator that now boasts over 17 million unique visitors per...
View ArticleNew York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
The New York Times has reportedly decided to abandon TimesSelect, its experiment with paid content on the web. This comes as no surprise since the pay wall was controversial, both internally and...
View ArticleBookstores Begin Slow Descent Into Obsolescence
I was in Borders Books today looking for a copy of David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous, and it suddenly struck me how ironic it was to be looking for a book about dynamic connectedness in...
View ArticleGoogle News Hosting Wire Service Stories Diminishes Value Of Duplicate Content
When each local newspaper was a self-contained, non-overlapping, monopoly distribution channel, the news wires made all of the sense in the world — why have each newspaper spend its own resources to...
View ArticleThe Web’s Link-Driven Attention Economy
Photographer Lane Hartwell, by making all of her Flickr photos private to prevent uncredited use, and by forcing the take down of a parody video containing one of her photos, has shined a spotlight on...
View ArticleReader-Centric Publishing: Aggregating and Repackaging Print Content Online
For most print publishers, mapping the audiences for their various titles would yield a cluster of overlapping circles — many readers of one of the publisher’s titles also read at least one other...
View ArticleHow Networked Link Journalism Can Give Journalists Collectively The Power Of...
The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give...
View ArticleThe New Associated Press for the 21st Century
This week, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With...
View ArticleThe Content Graph and the Future of Brands
Yesterday, two stories from Aol’s DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan. These stories appeared on a business page that would...
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